I recognnize what conservatives like Prager and Levin are trying to protect and achieve. They posit the existence of an eternal moral order comprised of God's natural laws, which mandate how we are to behave. This ethical standard of objective truth provides them with a moral code of absolute right and absolute wrong. This way they do not sink into moral depravity linked to popular acceptance of ethical relativism that anything goes and moral law is but generational, local custom and opinion or interpreation.
I believe that relativism is reality and can be a great good in that it captures the complexity built into all reality, and the realization of and dealing with the complexity is what binds us to what is near eternal and near absolute truth.
Black and white descriptions of certain truth and certain falsehood and pure good and pure evil are lies or illusions, but are also fanatical, emotional and tainted, and more in line with Lucifer and Lera than the Father and the Mother.
Still near absolute truth and near moral perfection can be described, recognized and named accurately, and that level of high probability is sufficient for us to feel confident that what we say and do are based on godly, holy right reasoning.
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